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@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little "write why" box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
If you're explicitly spamming, you'd just put garbage in the 'why' box as well.
Right. Effectively you DOS the site admins this way, making it hard for actual community set up.
But if you combine it with rate limiting, email verification, and a captcha, maybe it can be slowed to a manageable crawl.
Or just a rate limit - how many communities can a person realistically start each month?